Readings
A ship which sunk on April 14th 1912.
What is the Titanic?
Typically limited to literature and explains a moral or lesson in a story.
What is a Theme?
The three main purposes for writing something.
What are: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain?
The three major rhetorical appeals.
What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
Templates of characters that make use of common experiences, traits, and actions to make them recognizable to most people.
What are Character Archetypes?
The President who gave the Address to the Nation following the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Tells the reader what the author believes about the topic
What is a Central Idea?
How authors typically organize their texts.
What are text sections/structures?
Techniques used to support Rhetorical Appeals.
What are Rhetorical Devices?
Someone who can either purely provide comic relief or they can use humor to shine a light on some sort of issue.
What is a Jester/Joker?
The owner of the dog "Buck" in "The Call of the Wild"
Who is John Thornton?
A simple formula to find a Central Idea.
What is Topic + Point = Cental Idea?
The overall message on the topic.
What is the meaning of a text?
A rhetorical device that connects two different meanings of the same word together.
What is Zeugma?
Characters who pass their knowledge to a pupil.
What is a Sage?
An animal rights activist who wrote "The Day I Saved a Life".
Who is Thomas Ponce?
The 5 ways an author develops central ideas.
What are Facts, Quotes, Anecdotes, Lists, and Examples?
The 5 common Text Features.
What are: Headings, Bold words, Pictures, Captions, Glossaries?
A rhetorical device that pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure.
What is antithesis?
Characters who fall under this archetype are unapologetically themselves and inspire others to join them.
What is an Outlaw/Rebel?
A Kenyan teenager who invented the "Lion Lights".
Who is Richard Turere?
The number of Central Ideas in most texts.
What is usually more than one?
The 4 common Text Structures.
What are: Description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution?
The 5 common Rhetorical Devices.
What are: Figurative language, Irony, Rhetorical question, Antithesis, and Zeugma?
An archetype that can apply equally to both heroes and villains. These characters search for more power for themselves rather than to help someone else.
What is a Magician?